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CREW v. U.S. Department of The Army: Regarding PTSD Diagnoses: 5/24/2011 - Part 9
CREW v. U.S. Department of The Army: Regarding PTSD Diagnoses: 5/24/2011 - Part 9
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Number of Vi sits with Ox of PTSO
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Wh at are we measuring?: This measures the total number of visits recorded for a service member who received a diagnosis of PT SD
after being deployed. If a person received their care in the VA or if the provider did not record that the visit was for PTSD, or if an initial
diagno sis of PTSD chang ed to another diagnosis. the visits would not be captured. so this may be an underestimate of the amount of care
provided.
Why is it im porta nt ?: We want to be sure that everyone with PTSD receives adequate treatm ent. The best available evidence sugg ests
that a person with appropriately diagnosed PTSD should receive 10 psychotherapy visits. If we are identifying PTSD but patients are not
gelling appropriate treatment , then patients could fail to recover and we would not be accomplishing our mission of rehabilitation and
reintegration to the force for people with mental disorders.
Wh at does our perfo rm ance t ell us?: Ther e have been a total of appro ximately 44,000 service members who have been diagnosed with
PTSD following a deplo yment of >30 days since 2002. Of these , less tha n half have documentation of more than 6 visits for PTSD. We w ill
need more data to de termine if this is a true reflection of the care that is actually being provided. The Armed Forces Health Surveillance
Center is now conducting such a study of available data.
Reference: In stitute of Medicine. Treatment of PTSl): All
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